Pastoral Resources

I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.

I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.